Test 4 · ★★ · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

What would happen to vanilla farms outside Mexico if nobody pollinated the flowers by hand?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, pollinate · To what, where: flowers

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 289 «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 farms	case
5	vanilla	vanilla	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 farms	amod
6	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	outside	outside	ADP	_	8 Mexico	case
8	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 farms	nmod
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 pollinated	mark
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 pollinated	nsubj
11	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flowers	det
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pollinated	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 hand	case
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pollinated	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to vanilla farms outside Mexico	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pollinate a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	the flowers				by hand	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Nothing, vanilla needs no flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 vanilla	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	vanilla	vanilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	nsubj
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 flowers	det
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Nothing vanilla	no flowers					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flower=Theme

Option 2

The flowers would turn into oranges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 oranges	case
6	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the flowers			oranges			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into orange=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Very few pods would form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 few	advmod
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pods	amod
3	pods	pod	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 form	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 form	aux
5	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	would	few pods						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would make twice as many pods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 make	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pods	amod
7	pods	pod	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	They	many pods				twice property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pod=Product

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